[WEB4LIB] Re: spelling conventions

[Sloan, Bernie]

Actually, before I added "Internet" to my MS Word vocabulary,
it used to offer "interment" as the first option.  :-)

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	TMGB [SMTP:bennettt at am.appstate.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 30, 1998 5:53 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: spelling conventions
> 
> When I choose the spell checker from WordPerfect  8, it always wants to
> give
> me a choice of Internet or INTERNET when it finds internet.  So, how much
> credence do you put on WPs spell checker will determine your acceptance of
> these two.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Kevin W. Bishop wrote:
> 
> > This is something of a silly question, but what is the convention?
> >
> > Internet / internet
> > Web / web
> > Webpage / webpage // Web page / web page
> > Website / website // Web site / web site
> >
> > I'm consistently inconsistent with the capitalization and spacing of
> these
> > words and would like to know if there is a standard style for the sake
> of
> > developing "how-to" [w]eb()pages about [w]eb()page development.
> >
> > -kb
> >
> > (I think it should be "Internet" and "Web", but as for the others ...
> ??)
> >
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